Can You Hack It? – Hackers Wanted

Hackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film. Directed and written by Sam Bozzo, the film explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history. The film is narrated by Kevin Spacey.

Originally named Can You Hack It?, the film failed to get a conventional release, according to Lamo, because of conflicts between its producer and others on the team. The more commonly cited reason is a problem with the quality of the finished product. On May 20, 2010, a version of the film was leaked. Lamo has stated that he had no involvement in the leak.

It’s ironic that a film about overcoming barriers, about new technologies, about thinking differently, had to come to the public eye by being hacked out of the hands of people who, after making a film about the free flow of information, tried to lock away that information forever. The truth tends to itself. -Adrian Lamo.

In The Histories, written in the mid-5th century BC, Herodotus cast doubt on a report of the sun observed shining from the north. He stated that the phenomenon was observed during a circumnavigation of Africaundertaken by Phoenician explorers employed by Egyptian pharaohNecho II c. 610–595 BC (The Histories, 4.42) who claimed to have had the sun on their right when circumnavigating in a clockwise direction. To modern historians aware of a spherical Earth, these details confirm the truth of the Phoenicians’ report.

After the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, andParmenides, in the 5th, recognized that the Earth is spherical,[56] the spherical view spread rapidly in the Greek world. Around 330 BC, Aristotlemaintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical, and reported on an estimate on the circumference.[57] The Earth’s circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes.[58] By the second century CE, Ptolemy had derivedhis maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude,longitude, and climes. His Almagest was written in Greek and only translated into Latin in the 11th century from Arabic translations.

The Terrestrial Sphere of Crates of Mallus (c. 150 BC)

In the 2nd century BC, Crates of Mallus devised a terrestrial sphere that divided the Earth into four continents, separated by great rivers or oceans, with people presumed living in each of the four regions.[59]Opposite the oikumene, the inhabited world, were the antipodes, considered unreachable both because of an intervening torrid zone(equator) and the ocean. This took a strong hold on the medieval mind.